England copying the scientific proceedings of recent America (joy!)

[Dark Jaguar]

This basically means massive tax cuts and scientific projects specifically decided by political movings. Of course, that's absolutely foolish. For science to work, it CAN'T be controlled as such by political considerations, funded ONLY when it benefits some politician's popularity to do so. Science MUST be funded in a more general manner, so it can grow on it's own freely, or it'll simply become retarded (in the classical definition).

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk...138240.ece

Steven Hawking has a few things to say about this...

[A Black Falcon]

Who needs this "science" thing anyway...

America sure does seem to love inspiring the world in negative ways, doesn't it. :(

[Great Rumbler]

Science is always the easiest thing to cut because it deals with the future.

[Dark Jaguar]

Well noted. Politicians in general never seem to think beyond their term in office. A hundred year long project like terraforming is going to be VERY difficult to ever actually sustain through the ENTIRE hundred years with that in mind...

[Great Rumbler]

Well, the problem isn't that the politicians are short-sited it has more to do with the average folk who put them in office being short-sited. When you're doing everything you can just to put food on the table and take care of the bills, it kind of starts to beceome a lot more about the here and now and not about what might or could happen in some indistinct number of years in the future.

[lazyfatbum]

i put fruit roll ups in the microwave because i'm a champion

[Dark Jaguar]

That counts as an experiment...